The table on the sidewalk had given him a perfect angle all day on the narrow street on which those mourning in the gloomy roar of death that had awaited them, those who ran desperately to fulfil all their dreams before they died, so that now, when the sorority was coming and the sun was painting real wounds on the damned city, he sipped the last drop of coffee, put out his cigarette, dropped his money, and got up to tell the waiter, squeezing the chairs one by one: tomorrow, at the same time?
(Translated by Diana Stănescu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In May 2022, the group has 8,350 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
